瓦
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roof tile; abbr. for 瓦特[wa3 te4]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 瓦 itself
- Structure
- Single component 独体
- Traditional
- 瓦
- Common rank
- #434
- Unicode
- U+74E6
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 瓦 is formed
Pictograph (象形字)
An interlocking roof tile
How to remember it
tile · Heisig RSH #2117
ceiling + plow + fishhook + a drop of
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 瓦
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 德拉克罗瓦 | Delacroix (painter) | |
| 巴克拉瓦 | (loanword) baklava | |
| 里瓦尔多 | Rivaldo | |
| 布拉提斯拉瓦 | (Tw) Bratislava, capital of Slovakia | |
| 拉瓦尔 | Laval (name) | |
| 安瓦尔 | (name) Anwar; Anwar Ibrahim (1947–), Malaysian politician, prime minister 2022– | |
| 普尔热瓦尔斯基 | Nikolai Mikhailovich Przevalski (1839-1888), Russian explorer who made four expeditions to… | |
| 斯瓦特 | Swat province in Pakistani Northwest Frontier | |
| 科尔多瓦 | Córdoba, Spain | |
| 斯福尔瓦尔 | Svolvær (city in Nordland, Norway) | |
| 瓦尔特 | Walter | |
| 阿瓦里德 | Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal al-Saud of Saudi Arabia | |
| 纳瓦特尔语 | Nahuatl (language) | |
| 瓦尔基里 | valkyrie | |
| 瓦尔达克 | Wardak (Afghan province) | |
| 瓦里斯 | (name) Wallis; John Wallis (1616–1703), English mathematician | |
| 瓦尔德 | Vardø (city in Finnmark, Norway) | |
| 巴卡拉瓦 | (loanword) baklava | |
| 巴特瓦族 | see 特瓦族[Te4 wa3 zu2] | |
| 法特瓦 | (loanword) fatwa |
Sound family
These characters use 瓦 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 瓦 sound part | tile; pottery, earthenware | |
| 佤 | The Va people (an ethnic group in Myanmar and southwest China) |